Wtf I gained a pound
luzerking
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I am on 1500 calories a day and walking/running 3 miles a day and I gained a pound wtf is goin on ?
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Patience grasshopper21
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more than likely it is water retention, and you do realize that your body weight fluctuates about +/- five pounds a day, right?
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Do you use a food scale?
do you log everything you eat?
are you honest with your logging?
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Any number of things. You could be failing to weigh all your food and thereby underestimating your calorie intake. You could be overestimating your calorie burns. You could also simply be experiencing normal water weight fluctuations.3
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Every morning when I wake up, I gain a pound after my first cup of water and first cup of coffee. Your expectations of your body are not realistic; your weight is not one set number and can fluctuate a great deal. Weigh yourself before and after dinner sometime to get an idea of how much your weight can change. Food intake, excess sodium, or a new exercise routine are just one of many examples that cause weight fluctuations/water retention.3
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Weight loss isn't linear...1
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Weight is affected by many factors, including many temporary environmental ones. Stay the course, relax, look at trends, not days.0
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I ate roughly 1200 calories yesterday (i cant be bothered stating the actual logged amount) i swam for an hour and gaine a pound overnight! Lol. Its water. Itll be gone in 3 days time. Just note it with interest and move on.1
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A pound is nothing to worry about, dude. My weight can easily fluctuate within 3-5lbs within a day. Water intake, water retention, food, bowel contents - all of these things can affect your weight.
Just chill. Track your weight and only worry if it shows a steady pattern of going up over the course of several weeks. Try using something like Happy Scale - it evens out fluctuations to give you an idea of where you're really at.1 -
I can fluctuate 3-5 pounds in a matter of hours. There's no "this is exactly how much I weigh." It's a range.0
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this is why I weigh in daily; so I can see the long term trend instead of just the number at any given moment. I fluctuate by 2-5lbs daily depending on my sodium consumption, exercise, and how recently I've 'dropped the kids and the pool'. You will be ok, just keep going.1
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more than likely it is water retention, and you do realize that your body weight fluctuates about +/- five pounds a day, right?
Also:
Do you use a food scale?
do you log everything you eat?
are you honest with your logging?
Yes yes yes in fact I put in extra calories just in case I was off on some items0 -
Could be water weight or you could be gaining muscle. muscle weighs more that fat.. Stay focused don't give up....0
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kmillette15 wrote: »Could be water weight or you could be gaining muscle. muscle weighs more that fat.. Stay focused don't give up....
OP is not going to be gaining muscle on a walk/run program.8 -
sunnybeaches105 wrote: »Any number of things. You could be failing to weigh all your food and thereby underestimating your calorie intake. You could be overestimating your calorie burns. You could also simply be experiencing normal water weight fluctuations.
As a woman, almost two weeks a month I retain buckets of water weight (okay, not buckets) and I try to give myself an edge by always overestimating food weights and underestimating workout calories. Once I get on track, I'll be more exact, but as a newbie (once again), this helps.0 -
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MiamiSeoul wrote: »sunnybeaches105 wrote: »Any number of things. You could be failing to weigh all your food and thereby underestimating your calorie intake. You could be overestimating your calorie burns. You could also simply be experiencing normal water weight fluctuations.
As a woman, almost two weeks a month I retain buckets of water weight (okay, not buckets) and I try to give myself an edge by always overestimating food weights and underestimating workout calories. Once I get on track, I'll be more exact, but as a newbie (once again), this helps.
As a man, my weight fluctuates 2-3 pounds every day and throughout each day0 -
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kmillette15 wrote: »Could be water weight or you could be gaining muscle. muscle weighs more that fat.. Stay focused don't give up....
nope...OP is not gaining muscle by waling/running and eating in a deficit. Muscle does not weigh more than fat...0 -
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Water weight. Unless you are 3500 calories above maintenance yeaterday, it is water weight. Last Saturday I was up 2.5 lbs from the previous day and My logging is very precise. I knew it was water weight so I just kept on logging. Sure enough, Monday I was back down the 2.5 lbs and by Tuesday, I lost another 1.5 pounds. I would wait it out, drink lots of water, and maybe watch your sodium intake in the mean time.1
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Like everyone says above you can fluctuate quite a bit day to day. I only weigh myself every few weeks now cause the ups and downs were stressing me out !
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kmillette15 wrote: »Could be water weight or you could be gaining muscle. muscle weighs more that fat.. Stay focused don't give up....
This is one of the biggest fallacies - muscle does not weigh more than fat. 5lbs. is 5lbs., 10lbs. is 10lbs., etc. whether you're weighing fat, muscle, paper clips or ice cream!1 -
MiamiSeoul wrote: »kmillette15 wrote: »Could be water weight or you could be gaining muscle. muscle weighs more that fat.. Stay focused don't give up....
This is one of the biggest fallacies - muscle does not weigh more than fat. 5lbs. is 5lbs., 10lbs. is 10lbs., etc. whether you're weighing fat, muscle, paper clips or ice cream!
One cubic inch of muscle dies weight more than one cubic inch of fat. People who say muscle weighs more than fat mean THIS.
We all know that a pound of X always weighs the same as a pound of Y.
The biggest issue is that gaining muscle weight takes a long time. Virtually no one who is not losing can blame muscle gain. The OP's workout schedule is not going to lead to the kind of muscle gain that explains the situation.
But, at the same volume, muscle does weigh more than fat.1 -
MiamiSeoul wrote: »kmillette15 wrote: »Could be water weight or you could be gaining muscle. muscle weighs more that fat.. Stay focused don't give up....
This is one of the biggest fallacies - muscle does not weigh more than fat. 5lbs. is 5lbs., 10lbs. is 10lbs., etc. whether you're weighing fat, muscle, paper clips or ice cream!
One cubic inch of muscle dies weight more than one cubic inch of fat. People who say muscle weighs more than fat mean THIS.
We all know that a pound of X always weighs the same as a pound of Y.
The biggest issue is that gaining muscle weight takes a long time. Virtually no one who is not losing can blame muscle gain. The OP's workout schedule is not going to lead to the kind of muscle gain that explains the situation.
But, at the same volume, muscle does weigh more than fat.
Exactly. It's a given that we are discussing equal volumes of said materials we are comparing. When someone says, "Well, lead weighs more than feathers." You never see someone throw up their hands, huff and say, "Well, that is absolutely ridiculous, a pound of lead weighs the same as a pound of feathers." Ummm... yeah. But what they keep ignoring for some reason is that's not what we are comparing. Equal volumes people. EQUAL VOLUMES.0 -
MiamiSeoul wrote: »kmillette15 wrote: »Could be water weight or you could be gaining muscle. muscle weighs more that fat.. Stay focused don't give up....
This is one of the biggest fallacies - muscle does not weigh more than fat. 5lbs. is 5lbs., 10lbs. is 10lbs., etc. whether you're weighing fat, muscle, paper clips or ice cream!
I think the bigger fallacy is that someone chocked on a pound of muscle in a week by walking/running and eating at a deficit.
The whole "muscle weighs more" is, to a point, the product of semantics (and is ultimately an example of a correct premise being diluted by simplicity to the point of inaccuracy).
However, the idea that someone is loading up on muscle at a rapid rate, without strength training, is just flat out wrong.1 -
I have had that happen a few times now and was upset. I found it was the sodium and it did come off within the next few days. Be patient. I find I will stay the same a few days and then drop 1 1/2 lbs one day. Our bodies do funny things sometimes. I myself havent really figured it out either. It will come off....stick with it
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